Gérard Bauër

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Gérard Bauër (7 October 1888 – 4 September 1967) was a French essayist and critic. He was the natural grandson of Alexandre Dumas.

Biography

Gérard Bauër was born at Le Vésinet (then in Seine-et-Oise department), the son of Henry Bauër[1] and Pauline Lemariée. He married on May 23, 1932 with Helena Margareta Van der Zee, from whom he divorced on March 29, 1950.

After having been Georges Clemenceau's assistant at L'Aurore, he became a literary and dramatic critic at the Écho de Paris from 1907 to 1935, then a columnist and editorialist at Le Figaro, where he wrote from 1935 onwards the Billet de Guermantes under the pseudonym of "Guermantes".[2] In addition to five volumes of columns, he also published a novel, several short comedies, as well as several works on Paris. With Yvonne Sarcey, he directed from 1934 to 1940 Les Annales politiques et littéraires.

Director of Paris-Presse in 1945, he was a member of the Goncourt Academy (5th seat) in 1948 and honorary president of the Society of People of Letters. In 1959, he was awarded the Grand Prix littéraire de la Ville de Paris for his Rendez-vous avec Paris.

Gérard Bauër is buried in the Charonne cemetery in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. His features were fixed by the painter Raymonde Heudebert.

Works

  • Sous les mers (1919; novel; awarded the Montyon Prize)
  • Recensement de l'amour à Paris (1922)
  • Il faut parler le premier (1924)
  • Éloge du désordre (1926)
  • Les Métamorphoses du romantisme (1928)
  • La Parisienne (1929)
  • Les boulevards (1937; illustrated by Chas Laborde & Carlos-Reymond)
  • Les Billets de Guermantes I (1937)
  • Les Billets de Guermantes II (1947)
  • Instants et visages de Paris (1951)
  • Histoire d'un palais de Paris: l'Élysée (1953)
  • L'Europe sentimentale (1954)
  • Dix rendez-vous avec Paris (1955)
  • Rendez-vous avec Paris (1959)
  • Rien ne sert d'aimer et 3 autres pièces [On aime ceux qui partent. Un Voisin sait tout. Il faut parler le premier] (1961)
  • Quelqu'un d'autre, récit pour un film imaginaire (1963)
  • Chroniques I, 1934-1953 (1964)
  • Chroniques II, 1954-1964 (1965)
  • Chroniques III, 1965-1967 (1967)

Notes

  1. ↑ Cerf, Marcel (1975). Le Mousquetaire de la Plume. La Vie d’un Grand Critique Dramatique: Henry Bauër, Fils Naturel d’Alexandre Dumas, 1851-1915. Paris: Académie d’Histoire, p. 94.
  2. ↑ D'Ormesson, Jean (2016). Je dirai malgré tout que cette vie fut belle. Paris: Gallimard, p. 99.

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